Fighting in Tripoli Starts Fire in Fuel Complex Near Airport

Residents Asked to Leave the Area as Fire Brigade Fights Blaze

By

Benoît Faucon

July 27, 2014 8:42 p.m. ET

LONDON—Fighting between rival militia in Tripoli Sunday caused a storage tank containing petroleum fuel to catch fire at a complex near the Tripoli airport, oil and security officials in the Libyan capital said.

A "tank containing 6.6 million liters of petrol" caught fire late Sunday as a result of fighting between rival militia vying...